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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Harvard
Harvard Yard is a grassy area of about 25 acres (10 hectares), adjacent to Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which constitutes the oldest part and the center of the campus of Harvard University.
Harvard's athletic rivalry with Yale is intense in every sport in which they meet, coming to a climax in their annual football meeting, which dates to 1875 and is usually called simply The Game.
Harvard has a friendly rivalry with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which dates back to 1900, when a merger of the two schools was frequently mooted and at one point officially agreed upon (ultimately cancelled by Massachusetts courts).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Harvard   (8475 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Harvard University
Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Harvard has the world's fourth largest library collection (after the Library of Congress[6], the British Library, and the French Bibliothèque Nationale), and the largest financial endowment of any academic institution, standing at $29.2 billion as of 2006 (which is also the second largest endowment for a non-profit organization, behind the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation).
Harvard has the world's third largest library collection (after the British Library and the Library of Congress)[7], and the largest financial endowment of any academic institution, standing at $25.9 billion as of 2005 (which is also the second largest endowment for a non-profit organization, behind only the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Harvard-University   (1396 words)

  
 Talk:List of Harvard University people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Move it to List of people affiliated with Harvard University, or better, split it into List of Harvard University alumni and List of Harvard University faculty.
As I'm going through this list and cleaning it up, I am finding many entries who have already passed away but are still listed as alive here.
As this list grows, it will become harder and harder to maintain the accuracy of whether or not those on this list are alive.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:List_of_Harvard_University_people   (591 words)

  
 Harvard University Details, Meaning Harvard University Article and Explanation Guide
Harvard University is a fully private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League.
Harvard is widely considered one of the world's most prestigious universities and has by far the largest endowment of any academic institution in the world ($22.6 billion as of 2004 [1], nearly double the next-most comfortably-endowed institution, Yale).
Harvard has a friendly rivalry with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which dates back to 1900, when a merger of the two schools was frequently mooted and at one point officially agreed upon (ultimately cancelled after a faculty and alumni rebellion in opposition to the plan).
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 Harvard Mentoring Project: Center for Health Communication
The Harvard Mentoring Project is supported by grants from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The MCJ Foundation.
Harvard undertook this initiative because studies have shown that mentoring is a highly effective strategy for preventing several key problems that young people face, including school violence, drug abuse, and school drop out.
P/PV also found that young people with mentors: felt more competent about their ability to do well in school; reported more positive relationships with friends and parents; had better attitudes toward school and the future; and had better attitudes toward their family and communities.
www.hsph.harvard.edu /chc/mentoring.html   (883 words)

  
 Harvard University , Great University , Good degrees   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Measured purely by statistics, Harvard is one of the world's most prominent universities —as Baedeker's guidebook phrased it in 1893, "the oldest, richest, and most famous of American seats of learning." Since 1974, for example, nineteen Nobel Prize winners and fifteen Pulitzer Prize winners have served on the Harvard faculty.
Weld Hall, a freshman residence dormitory in Harvard YardThe radio station WHRB (95.3FM Cambridge), is run exclusively by Harvard students, and is given space on the Harvard campus in the basement of Pennypacker Hall, a freshman dormitory.
Harvard's athletic rivalry with Yale is intense in every sport in which they meet, coming to a climax in their annual football meeting, which dates to 1875 and is usually called simply The Game as a sign of its importance.
www.greatuniversity.net /harvard-university.faculty.6964.html   (1205 words)

  
 List of Harvard University people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This list is poorly defined, unverified or indiscriminate.
This is a table of notable people affiliated with Harvard University, including graduates, former students, and professors.
For a list of Harvard's presidents, see President of Harvard University.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Harvard_University_people   (1065 words)

  
 Harvard Medical School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harvard Medical School (HMS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University.
This is because their affiliations have been in place for the greatest period of time and every department is directly affiliated with the medical school.
Harvard Medical School is divided into five societies.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harvard_Medical_School   (625 words)

  
 Healthy Weight and Weight Control: Nutrition Source, Harvard School of Public Health
Last year, in a survey by Harvard School of Public Health researchers, three-fourths of Americans rated obesity as a serious public health problem.(2) This is more in line with the impact of obesity on health.
Although researchers are quibbling about just how many people die each year as a direct cause of excess weight and what it costs our health-care system, excess weight takes an enormous toll.
The National Institutes of Health recommends bariatric surgery only for people who are severely overweight, namely those with BMIs of 40 or higher (or people with BMIs of 35 or higher who have type 2 diabetes, heart disease, or other serious weight-related health problems).
www.hsph.harvard.edu /nutritionsource/healthy_weight.html   (5028 words)

  
 Peter Suber, Open-Access Lists (formerly: FOS Lists)
University of California at Santa Cruz: Resolution on ties with Elsevier Journals, adopted by the Committee on the Library and sent to the Faculty Senate, October 24, 2003.
University of California at San Francisco: Challenges to Sustaining Subscriptions for Scholarly Publications, memorandum to all UCSF faculty from Karen Butter, the University Librarian, and Leonard Zegans and David Rempel, co-chairs of the Committee on Library, November 1 2003.
Harvard University: Letter to the Harvard faculty from Sidney Verba, Director of the University Library, December 9, 2003.
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 Harvard university people   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
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 Harvard University Library : Publications : Harvard University Library Notes
Harvard and Google are both committed to keeping their records of book use confidential.
Jan Merrill-Oldham, the University's Malloy-Rabinowitz Preservation Librarian as well as the director of the Weissman Preservation Center, is charged with observing processes, preparing screening and handling specifications, and instructing the trainers whose job it is to oversee all aspects of book handing.
But the University Library Council has decided to reverse that policy, and OIS is in the process of making Harvard's holdings fully available in OpenWorldCat.
hul.harvard.edu /publications/hul_notes_1323/verba.html   (1075 words)

  
 Faculty Profile
Forman is the PAES Professor of Advanced Environmental Studies in Landscape Ecology at Harvard University.
At Harvard, Forman teaches graduate courses (landscape ecology, topics in landscape ecology, and urban and suburban ecology) at the Graduate School of Design, and a junior-senior course (ecology and land-use planning) in the Environmental Science and Public Policy Program of Harvard College.
He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of Clare Hall (University of Cambridge), and honorary professor in the Academia Sinica in China.
www.gsd.harvard.edu /people/faculty/forman/index.html   (553 words)

  
 University People  -  Harvard Magazine (January-February 2003)
Harvard's first ombudsman is physicist Henry Ehrenreich, Clowes research professor of science.
This is the second round of such grants, conferred on five scholars at a time, through which the foundation encourages distinguished work in the humanities.
Cogan University Professor Stephen J. Greenblatt, a leading Shakespeare critic, was recognized earlier (see "Brevia," January-February 2002, page 70).
www.harvardmagazine.com /on-line/0103122.html   (519 words)

  
 Charles Bullard Fellowship in Forestry at Harvard Forest
While applicant's are welcome to wait to submit their applications until Feb. 1, it is strongly recommended that an initial application with the 3 referees email addresses be SAVED as soon as possible to allow the referee time to complete their part by Feb. 1.
The Bullard Fellowship is a residential program and Fellows are expected to spend a substantial portion of their Fellowship based at either Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts or Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Costs specific to international scholars vary with the length of the fellowship but include visas (up to $1500 per person), up to 14% income taxes, health insurance (~$200/month for an individual, ~$650/month for a family of 4), and the travel to the United States for their families.
harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu /education/bullard.html   (1269 words)

  
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The University has a regular enrollment of 17,000 plus some 30,000 other students who take credit courses, non-credit courses, and seminars in University Extension, the Summer School, and other programs in continuing education.
Harvard Brazilian Organization The Harvard Brazilian Organization, the only official Brazilian club on campus, was created in 1994 by students of Harvard College.
The mailing list enabled all members, regardless of their geographic location, to exchange messages in a very convenient way.
hcs.harvard.edu /~hbo/bplan99.doc   (819 words)

  
 bhumi.net - Development Events at Harvard
IMPACT is a Harvard student group that raises funds on campus for small, grassroots non-profits in the developing world.
If you are a Harvard student and have heard of or been involved with a worthy non-profit in Africa, you can apply for money on its behalf.
The Weatherhead Center offers opportunities to Harvard College non first-year undergraduates to assist Fellows of the Center with their orientation to the intellectual resources of Harvard University and with their research responsibilities while in residence.
www.cid.harvard.edu /bhumi/events   (1038 words)

  
 Definition of Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University.
The school was established in 1782, and was moved from Cambridge to Boston in 1810.
The School is home to about 650 students in the MD program, 500 in the PhD program, and 130 in the MD-PhD program, allowing a student to receive his or her MD from HMS and his or her PhD from either Harvard or MIT.
www.wordiq.com /definition/Harvard_Medical_School   (222 words)

  
 Harvard University Calendar
on the Harvard campus and in the community
The Dec. 14 Calendar will list events happening through Feb. 8; the deadline for that issue is Thursday, Dec. 7, by 5 p.m.
The 7th annual Holyoke Center group art exhibition features works by Harvard University employees who work in the Holyoke Center.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/calendar   (160 words)

  
 Global Equity Initiative - Harvard University - People
He was on the faculty at the Harvard University School of Public Health as a Visiting Professor in 1993-94, and as Adjunct Professor thereafter.
Susan is a graduate student at Harvard Divinity School (HDS) where she focuses on the moral and ethical dimensions of the exercise of power, U.S. foreign policy and international development issues.
Susan McHone is the Financial Director of the Harvard University Asia Center and assists GEI with high-level grant and financial administration as well as human resources, allowing the substantive work of the GEI to proceed as seamlessly as possible.
www.fas.harvard.edu /~acgei/people.htm   (1815 words)

  
 HLS : JD: Suggested Reading List for Prospective Law Students   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
The length of the list results in part from the difficulty of making choices from so rich a literature for so varied a group.
The reminiscences of a distinguished member of the Harvard Law School faculty and Justice of the Supreme Court.
Landmark study of the life of one of the greatest Justices to sit on the New York Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court.
www.law.harvard.edu /admissions/jd/read_lst.php   (1228 words)

  
 Deaf-list Info Page
Deaf Exploration and Awareness Forum (DEAF) at HGSE brings together people who are interested in exploring issues related to deafness, the Deaf culture and community, and to raise awareness of these issues at HGSE and Harvard University.
The listserv serves to connect these people and to disseminate information that may be of interest to us.
This is a private list, which means that the list of members is not available to non-members.
gse.harvard.edu /mailman/listinfo/deaf-list   (328 words)

  
 E-mail List Usage Policies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Secondly, be aware that although membership in the main ABCD e-mail list is mandatory, membership in subgroups is completely voluntary and you can change which lists you subscribe to at any time.
The main ABCD list has over 1200 subscribers, and many of them may not be interested in your issue, be using the same OS as you, be IT people, or even be of the same species as you.
If the original question poster feels that the results of the discussion are of general interest, they may, at their option, summarize all the responses and post to the main list.
www.abcd.harvard.edu /listusage.html   (590 words)

  
 The Harvard University Choir > Story Archives
Below you will find a list of the topical articles currently appearing on the main pages of the website.
This is a list of prominent events and accomplishments of the choir over the last ten years.
When The Memorial Church was built in 1932, a visitor entering from the west end opposite Thayer Hall had a view down the center aisle, through an opening in the oak choir screen, all the way to an enormous Palladian-style window that stretched almost floor to ceiling at the east end of Appleton Chapel.
www.uchoir.harvard.edu /archives.html   (278 words)

  
 Scott V. Edwards
During his 9 years at the U. Washington, he continued his studies of immunogenetics and population genetics of birds, funded by several grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration, and is proud to have published five papers with undergraduates as first authors during that time.
He also received NSF funds for an ongoing program to enhance undergraduate diversity at the annual meetings for the Society for the Study of Evolution and is actively engaged in increasing student diversity in the environmental and evolutionary sciences.
He moved to Harvard University in late 2003 as a Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Curator of Ornithology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, where he continues efforts to unite genomics and natural history and involve students at all levels.
www.oeb.harvard.edu /faculty/edwards/people/edwards.htm   (773 words)

  
 DEAS - Undergraduate Study - Computer Science
>>We suggest prospective and current students considering computer science at Harvard take a look at our undergraduate CS guide; the sample schedules provide a snapshot of what to expect.
Entrepreneurship goes beyond theory — Harvard students have created world-class companies such as Microsoft and Skyris Networks, and most recently, undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg made facebooking (www.thefacebook.com) part of the nation’s vocabulary.
A complete list of faculty members and their affiliated research areas is available here.
www.deas.harvard.edu /undergradstudy/computerscience   (467 words)

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